Battlefield 1

[Tutonic]

I was going to give the open beta a crack tonight, to give it a fair review, and EA's servers are completely down. Not just for BF, but FIFA and a whole bunch of other titles apparently.

Doesn't bode well :sideways:

[Nuka]

Had a quick go once I got into a server - my personal impression, "Not Bad".

I've been out of FPS games other than CS for a while, but the game is fast paced and enemies go down easily. You always seem to be less than 7 seven seconds away from action since death/respawning is super quick. Sniping is good and I'm more able to be moving around quickly, usually going for one body shot and finishing with a few rounds from a pistol - this is great because I much prefer the up-close fast sniping to long range. Didn't get a chance with planes, but the land ship felt weighty and is very fun to use. I couldn't really get used to the Automatic rifle in the Assault class, but the rifle in the Medic class was good fun!

The new conquest mode means that tickets bleed from just the flags and the amount of flag each side owns - deaths/respawns play no role, meaning that there is no reason to wait for a Medic to revive you because respawning is just as fast and has no negative effect on the team.

Think I need to play some more when the servers are more stable, but at this time I'm not blown away, but I like the game.

[TwoBad]

Was gonna give it a try last night but as Tut said, no luck.  However, Blob and Puff have both been playing it.  Had a good chat with Blob on Tuesday evening about it and he thinks it's pretty good, better than BF3/4 etc.  He even went as far as saying it could be back to the good old days of BC2.  They both think they'll get it and based on what they've been telling me, i probably will to.

I stopped buying their stuff when BF4 came out and i think that was the right decision.  I know they are still the same old money grabbers but if this game does turn out to be another star then i'll go for it.  Even at £90 if i put a 1000 hrs in that's 9 pence per hour.  The last film i went to see at the flicks cost me closer to £5 per hour or put another way, Hollywood is 55 times more expensive.  I know it's not quite the same thing but ...

[RogueTaylor]

I got a beta code and will be downloading it tonight, if possible would love to team up with some people on it to try it out. I have been avoiding the news on it and have o let seen what you guys have been saying about it. I am looking forward to giving it ago tho if blob and puff think it's that good there must be something to it ?

[ShadowFax75]

I am enjoying this beta, and I will buy this game for sure. The game is fun to play with a few on teamspeak. If you play it alone, it's not that fun at all imho.

The new system with how the tickets go, I don't like that tbh.

[Gone_Away]

Really good fun. quality graphics. Played rush and conquest.

Defo going to buy the premium version when it comes down a bit..

[BrotherTobious]

So will that be as the release BF0.5??

[De_Blob]

I've put quite a few hours in now and ranked up to level 41 at the moment. From what I've played the game seems to handle really well with nice graphics and smooth gameplay. The weapons seem to be fairly well balanced however there is quite a lot more snipers than any other class, due to the large map, making acquiring stuff such as ammo and health packs difficult at times. Also, the Assault class gets anti-tank grenades which is the map anti-tank weapon at the moment however they only get SMGs which are rather underwhelming on the large map so not many people play them. This makes tanks super powerful. Tanks as a whole from what I've seen and played are extremely powerful and I think that the Light Tank is very overpowered with its Canister shells being able to one-shot infantry at a range of up to 150m sometimes. My best game was a 40-0 K/D where I managed to stay in a light tank the entire game and took little damage ever. This is definitely something that would need to be re-balanced in the full game.

Medics are the most underplayed class from what I've seen and I have only ever been revived 2 or 3 times because of there being no revive icon on a dead player's body like there has been in previous iterations of the Battlefield games. Their guns only begin to get good on Sinai Desert when you can acquire the Sharpshooter and Marksman variants of the guns which have scopes allowing you to pick off enemies at a larger distance and contest the snipers.

The three special kits that you can pick up around the map consist of an armored MG08/15 machine gun kit, a Tankgewehr anti-tank rifle kit and a Flame thrower kit. Each are very powerful but can also be countered just as easily. The MG08/15 machine gun kit allows you to spray hundreds of bullets down towards enemies and overwhelm them with firepower whilst your armor plating allows you to have far superior health to any other character in the game. The Tankgewehr is extremely effective against infantry as well as vehicles with one shot kill on infantry and on unarmored cars with a 2 shot kill on the armored Rolls Royce. It also does good chunks of damage to planes and tanks depending on their type. The flamethrower lacks range like the other two but makes up for it with a very strong weapon that will continue to burn and damage your enemies after you've stopped shooting them so you can change targets quickly making it very effective within the town around the C and D flags. The easiest way to counter these special classes are either with a bayonet charge or a melee kill which makes them each well balanced in my opinion.

I find the game very fun to play and has a great immersive feel with the great graphics and a crisp sound design making it feel authentic whilst also being fun in an arcade way. But there are big balancing issues.

[Tutonic]

Despite my low expectations, I kinda like it. It feels better for being a more low-fi, gritty kind of warfare.

That said, the shameless DLC pimping and EA/DICE's track record when launching is still putting me off. I think I will wait for the discounts, once they've patched all the bugs. The prices that EA are charging in Origin are just too high for my liking.

[Gone_Away]

Despite my low expectations, I kinda like it. It feels better for being a more low-fi, gritty kind of warfare.

That said, the shameless DLC pimping and EA/DICE's track record when launching is still putting me off. I think I will wait for the discounts, once they've patched all the bugs. The prices that EA are charging in Origin are just too high for my liking.

I'm with you Tut. The game isn't perfect (no surprise) but I'm really enjoying the gameplay. The servers are a bit ropey at the moment but they were with BF3 and BF4 at this point (still don't know why they can't get it right in the first place??).

I will go all in but will wait for a discount post launch.

[ShadowFax75]

I'm with you Tut. The game isn't perfect (no surprise) but I'm really enjoying the gameplay. The servers are a bit ropey at the moment but they were with BF3 and BF4 at this point (still don't know why they can't get it right in the first place??).

I will go all in but will wait for a discount post launch.

I pre-ordered the standard edition at a keysite (g2play) for 42 euro. But I know some also bought it for 30 pounds at hotukdeals a while ago.
The season pass/premium will probably bought as well, but I'll wait for that as the first dlc will be in february.

[Method-Man]

IM GUNNA GET THIS GAME!!!! i have played the beta for only a few hours now and yeh its only one map but i feel that the game runs much better that bf4 and hardline(if i am correct its the hardline engine?)
but yeh awesome i think i love my WW games much prefer its to today's war games



AS its last night for the beta anyone up for teaming up tonight origin IvIethod-man

[Gone_Away]

I pre-ordered the standard edition at a keysite (g2play) for 42 euro. But I know some also bought it for 30 pounds at hotukdeals a while ago.
The season pass/premium will probably bought as well, but I'll wait for that as the first dlc will be in february.

To TOGA have a server ready to go??

[ShadowFax75]

To TOGA have a server ready to go??

Not yet, but we will probably have a server.

[Sneakytiger]

Played it at EGX also titanfall2 both lovely to play .


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